Senior Technical Specialist – Tungsten TotalAgility Platform

Cape Town North | Hybrid | Independent Contract

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Senior Technical Specialist to take ownership of the design, implementation, administration, and support of a Tungsten TotalAgility platform within a complex enterprise environment.

This role is suited to a hands-on technical professional with strong infrastructure, SQL Server, Windows Server, security, and enterprise application support experience. You will play a key role in ensuring the platform remains secure, highly available, scalable, and optimised while supporting business-critical intelligent automation solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Administration

  • Install, configure, maintain and support Tungsten TotalAgility environments across Development, Test, Pre-Production and Production.
  • Manage multi-tenant environments, upgrades, patches and platform lifecycle activities.
  • Implement data retention and archiving strategies.
  • Maintain platform architecture in line with enterprise standards.
  • Ensure platform availability, disaster recovery readiness and failover capability.

Infrastructure & Systems

  • Administer and support Windows Server environments.
  • Manage enterprise servers, virtual environments and cloud infrastructure.
  • Monitor capacity, scalability and system performance.

Database Administration

  • Develop, maintain and optimise SQL Server queries.
  • Perform database performance tuning and optimisation.

Security

  • Implement and maintain security controls, authentication and access management.
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments and support security compliance initiatives.

Configuration & Integration

  • Configure TotalAgility modules including Capture, Transformation and Core Worker Services.
  • Develop and maintain custom scripts, integrations and platform extensions where required.

Monitoring & Support

  • Implement monitoring, logging and alerting solutions.
  • Proactively identify and resolve performance issues.
  • Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis and incident resolution.
  • Maintain technical documentation and knowledge articles.

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications

  • Diploma or Degree in Information Technology or a related field.
  • Relevant Microsoft, Azure, SQL Server or AWS certifications will be advantageous.

Experience

  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Senior Technical Specialist, Systems Engineer or Enterprise Platform Support role.
  • Strong experience with:
  • Windows Server administration
  • SQL Server administration and optimisation
  • Enterprise infrastructure and server support
  • System security and access control
  • Enterprise application deployment and configuration
  • Experience supporting Tungsten TotalAgility is highly advantageous.

Technical Skills

Essential

  • Tungsten TotalAgility platform administration
  • Windows Server (Linux knowledge advantageous)
  • SQL Server
  • Enterprise infrastructure support
  • System security and access management
  • Platform configuration and deployment
  • Monitoring and alerting tools

Advantageous

  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • REST/SOAP API integrations
  • .NET / C#
  • PowerShell scripting
  • Load balancing and performance tuning
  • Identity & Access Management (IAM)
  • Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
  • Git version control
  • Agile/Scrum environments

Personal Attributes

  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting ability
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Self-motivated and proactive
  • Able to work effectively under pressure
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Passion for mentoring and knowledge sharing

What’s on Offer

  • Independent contract opportunity
  • Hybrid working model
  • Based in Cape Town North
  • Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale intelligent automation platforms within a highly technical environment.

If you meet the above requirements and are looking for your next contract opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.

Desired Skills:

  • Tungsten
  • TotalAgility
  • Linux
  • SQL
  • Azure

Desired Work Experience:

  • 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Grade 12 / Matric

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